State ex rel. I.T.

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• finding that the Eleventh Circuit must conduct “plain-error analysis on direct appeal whenever a defendant claims breach of the plea agreement but did not object in the district court”
• finding that the government breached the plea agreement “by arguing against an acceptance-of-responsibility reduction based on [the defend- ant’s] pre-plea conduct,” as the court “relied in part” on that argu- ment
• stating a defendant’s substantial rights are affected if an error “affected the outcome of the district court proceedings” (quotation marks omitted)
• finding under a similarly worded plea agreement that the government was not released from its agreement to recommend an acceptance-of-responsibility 2 Recommend, MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY (last visited Sept. 29, 2023
• defendant “cannot show that the government’s breach of this aspect of the plea agreement vio- lated his substantial rights because” the defendant got everything “the government had agreed to recommend under this part of the plea agreement”
• “We find plain error when (1) an error has occurred, (2) the error was plain, and (3) it affected the defendant’s substantial rights, and if those prongs are met, we then have discretion to correct the error if it (4

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